This is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young student, who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature that he has constructed from the corpses he finds in churchyards and dissecting rooms. Once animated, the creature longs for sympathy and human contact but is shunned by everyone. The creature then turns to evil and brings a dreadful revenge upon Frankenstein for usurping the Creator's perogative....

RELEASE NOTES:

A Book Relay books sent to PJW in Rochester, NY. Enjoy!

Got it in the mail today. Thanks! I can't wait to read it.

At about 1:30 last night I said to myself "Okay, one more chapter and then I'm going to bed." But while I was reading that chapter I realized that I had passed that point, near the end of the book, where you just can't stop reading until you've seen how it ends. So I stayed up an extra hour reading it. A good book, but I'm ready for some lighter reading now. Perhaps something less than 100 years old.

Like many other old books that are worth keeping around, Project Gutenberg has preserved this book in eText form, for those of you who think that ink and paper are relics to be left behind with the 20th century.

For those of you who haven't read it, the creature is not much like the one from the movies at all.

I've got to say that I sympathized with the creature in a lot of places. I'll probably write something about that in my blog, but I won't inflict that on all the future readers of this book by putting it in the journal entry. I'll probably edit this entry to link to it if I do, though. So you'll have the option of reading my self-indulgent crap or not.

My mom finished reading this and gave it to my grandfather. He won't touch a computer if he doesn't have to, so don't expect a journal entry, but she did tell him to leave it in the club house at his retirement community.

I actually don't know where this book is right now. :-/ My guess is somewhere at my Mom's house. I'm sending her an email right now to ask her to look for it, and hopefully set it traveling soon.